Why not just play the real games, rather than an electronic version of the game?
Because packing (e.g.) fifteen board games for you car trip is inefficient.
Fifteen games in 15 cu. ft., or fifteen games in <0.25 cu. ft.? HMMM.
(Also, convenience. Say you're with friends, and want to play a game. You probably didn't bring Scrabble, but you brought your iPhone/iPad/both. Which can you whip out?)
That's your only problem? What about using the term "photograph" with sonar? Shouldn't it be a sonograph?
(Also, the term "computer-generated" doesn't apply to the image itself, but the content. By your definition, even your digital camera takes computer-generated pictures.;) )
It's a nice concept, and there's probably a real application there, but the article sounds completely ridiculous.
a weapon system that can deliver cyber-effects through free space into an aperture
Uh-huh. The weapon is easy, convincing the enemy to add a weak point is the only snag.
The data beams would be packed with specialized waveforms and algorithms that work like keys to open networks.
Ooh! It's got waveforms! And algorithms!!
Okay, I'll assume that we infiltrate the enemy to attach an access point. Couldn't we just park a truck nearby and use a lower-power antenna? Or use an unsecured access point?
For those interested in the actual "feature", apparently the ASCIIization is apparently done locally on your CPU within the Flash player.
You can tell because you can turn it on and off without restarting the stream, and also because it loads your CPU.
Heck when I was in high school I had a teacher use a wireless air card to get onto youtube since the district tech staff were blocking so many websites for no reason whatsoever.
You don't even know how ridiculous the blocklists are. I once tried to show my physics teacher the XKCD comic "Centrifugal Force", but xkcd.com was blocked for "sexuality".
Oh, and the time I ran the site for the Journalism class? For whatever reason, random files (like icons--I remember a gear icon in particular) would get blocked. I eventually went to IT and asked them to unblock the domain. Few days later, one of the techs shows up, "What's the problem?" "Random pages getting blocked. Here's an example." "Oh, can you print out that page? We'll take care of it." "Sure." Later, no change. I go back, and it turns out they whitelisted that one icon, even though I said several times to whitelist the whole domain. (Seriously, what could go up that's objectionably? We moderated all comments...)
And YouTube. They blacklisted www.youtube.com... but specifically whitelisted youtube.com.
The UK just had to cut down a bunch of trees because people were 'dogging,' or having public sex there. [...]can you teach us American how to be a little less puritanical?
Clearly, you are not familiar with the Fens in Boston, where they cut down quite a bit of vegetation (reeds, I think) because they were being used by gay men for hookups.
There was actually quite a bit of outcry, but nothing really happened. You can find out more about it by Googling.
You think THAT'S bad? How about the insect that realized "Hey, we have open circulatory systems... I can just stick it in anywhere and the sperm could probably get to an egg!"... and then proceeded to evolve weaponized penises (now there's a nice phrase) so that they could just puncture the female's carapace and inject semen, instead of trying to coerce the female into the right position. You know what the female's response was? Evolve a second set of genitals on its back.
What, you don't believe me? Wikipedia has an article. With pictures.
(Okay after reading the article again I don't see any reference to a second set of genitals. Maybe my memory made that part up, but it does discuss female evolutionary reactions.)
People use the term "sync" when it has nothing to do with synchronization. When you "sync" your smartphone you're not doing anything that relates to time, you're just copying data to be the same in both places.
You're using an awfully narrow definition of "synchronize". While yes, its origin is probably in terms of time (hence the "-chron-"), the modern use is more like "to make two (or more) objects contain the same information", as in synchronization between a computer and mobile device. You are copying the data either from the one to the other to make them homogeneous.
As with Bluetooth pairings: you are copying identifying information from one device to the other (I'm not very familiar with the details of Bluetooth, though, so I don't know exactly how it works), to essentially make them one and the same. As you did in the information example.
Clarifying? How about entirely rewriting to make sense? "Pitch-black night vision goggles"? If I wanted pitch black, I wouldn't be wearing the goggles.:\
He "predicted" that Ahmadinejad wouldn't be reelected to the presidency of Iran, because he's group had no popular support. We all know how that ended.
I'm sure he assumed the elections were fair.;)
In any case, regimes with leaders like that don't need to get reelected. They just declare themselves dictator-for-life.
I use AVG's free edition for on-access scanning, just for a little extra protection, because I am generally able to avoid getting infected with anything. (Even if something does slip by me, I can often track it down through a service it installs, entry in startup lists, or running processes.)
If I'm downloading something that has a big potential for being a virus (e.g. a no-CD crack), I'll scan it manually with AVG, and also upload it to a scanning service like virusscan.jotti.org or virustotal.com, which take a file and put it through a number of anti-virus products.
Natually, AVG has also been making it harder to find the free edition. They, of course, want you to buy the full AVG Internet Security package. (To find AVG Free, you have to go to free.avg.com, and look for the less-flashy, more hidden buttons.)
If information can harm the stability of you're country, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!
Um... There will always be information that will have to be withheld due to (valid) concerns about National Security.
For example, take a unit in Afghanistan. What do you think would happen if details of that unit were disclosed, e.g. how big it is, where it is moving to, and what the soldiers are armed with? It would be attacked, and the enemy would know exactly what to expect.
Or, take an example closer to home. What if the President's jogging route for an arbitrary date in the future was disclosed, including precise times?
You really can't say that no information is detrimental to stability...
sometimes it's the same structure with different comments, suggesting they just sat side by side and wrote the lab together.
I've always been confused as to why this is considered cheating. If you and another student cooperate to attack a problem together, why is that a bad thing? You both (supposedly) learn whatever was being taught... It's not plagiarism, either.
I'm very glad they finally made this change. Working with three separate windows was hell. I'm no professional, but I'm usually working from a reference image. With one monitor on 1280x1024, I like to have the toolbox and layers/undo/brushes windows narrow, on either side, leaving the image window in the center, maximized, zoomed in as necessary.
Because of this, I'm always alt-tabbing back and forth between the reference and the editor. Eventually, I'll open another window or something, and the window order will get all messed up, or the image window will come forward without the toolbox, or the toolbox will just disappear from the KDE panel and I'll have to minimize all my windows to find it again.
Once again, US consumers are getting screwed over by their corporate overlords while the government sits by and does nothing.
You seem to be misinformed. These days, government is run by corporations and special interests. (And don't even get me started on that recent Supreme Court decision.)
Only problem with that approach is that while you're not innovating, your competitors probably are, which usually makes them better than you again, leaving you to to play eternal catch-up-and-do-marginally-better.
Does any major software still need the 16-bit subsystem?
Assuming you're referring to Windows, I can tell you that 64-bit Windows XP, which was derived from Server 2003, I believe, has no 16-bit subsystem.
As for major 16-bit software programs, yes, there are still some in use, probably mostly old combinations of hardware and software in specialized fields, especially old control systems. There was one comment on a story a few days back describing such installations, which are still around either because of specialized hardware interfaces or an excessive upgrade cost.
For YouTube embedded players, clicking on the video will open the YouTube page in a new window/tab.
Which, incidentally, I find annoying, as I expect it to pause, as it would on YouTube.
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Because packing (e.g.) fifteen board games for you car trip is inefficient.
Fifteen games in 15 cu. ft., or fifteen games in <0.25 cu. ft.? HMMM.
(Also, convenience. Say you're with friends, and want to play a game. You probably didn't bring Scrabble, but you brought your iPhone/iPad/both. Which can you whip out?)
That's your only problem? What about using the term "photograph" with sonar? Shouldn't it be a sonograph? ;) )
(Also, the term "computer-generated" doesn't apply to the image itself, but the content. By your definition, even your digital camera takes computer-generated pictures.
Discovery's landing, I should hope!
Uh-huh. The weapon is easy, convincing the enemy to add a weak point is the only snag.
Ooh! It's got waveforms! And algorithms!!
Okay, I'll assume that we infiltrate the enemy to attach an access point. Couldn't we just park a truck nearby and use a lower-power antenna? Or use an unsecured access point?
For those interested in the actual "feature", apparently the ASCIIization is apparently done locally on your CPU within the Flash player.
You can tell because you can turn it on and off without restarting the stream, and also because it loads your CPU.
That's impressive, but dare I ask when you go to the bathroom?
You don't even know how ridiculous the blocklists are. I once tried to show my physics teacher the XKCD comic "Centrifugal Force", but xkcd.com was blocked for "sexuality".
Oh, and the time I ran the site for the Journalism class? For whatever reason, random files (like icons--I remember a gear icon in particular) would get blocked. I eventually went to IT and asked them to unblock the domain. Few days later, one of the techs shows up, "What's the problem?" "Random pages getting blocked. Here's an example." "Oh, can you print out that page? We'll take care of it." "Sure." Later, no change. I go back, and it turns out they whitelisted that one icon, even though I said several times to whitelist the whole domain. (Seriously, what could go up that's objectionably? We moderated all comments...)
And YouTube. They blacklisted www.youtube.com... but specifically whitelisted youtube.com.
Clearly, you are not familiar with the Fens in Boston, where they cut down quite a bit of vegetation (reeds, I think) because they were being used by gay men for hookups.
There was actually quite a bit of outcry, but nothing really happened. You can find out more about it by Googling.
You think THAT'S bad? How about the insect that realized "Hey, we have open circulatory systems... I can just stick it in anywhere and the sperm could probably get to an egg!"... and then proceeded to evolve weaponized penises (now there's a nice phrase) so that they could just puncture the female's carapace and inject semen, instead of trying to coerce the female into the right position. You know what the female's response was? Evolve a second set of genitals on its back.
What, you don't believe me? Wikipedia has an article. With pictures.
(Okay after reading the article again I don't see any reference to a second set of genitals. Maybe my memory made that part up, but it does discuss female evolutionary reactions.)
You're using an awfully narrow definition of "synchronize". While yes, its origin is probably in terms of time (hence the "-chron-"), the modern use is more like "to make two (or more) objects contain the same information", as in synchronization between a computer and mobile device. You are copying the data either from the one to the other to make them homogeneous.
As with Bluetooth pairings: you are copying identifying information from one device to the other (I'm not very familiar with the details of Bluetooth, though, so I don't know exactly how it works), to essentially make them one and the same. As you did in the information example.
And it takes all of five seconds to enter the command... sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
Clarifying? How about entirely rewriting to make sense? "Pitch-black night vision goggles"? If I wanted pitch black, I wouldn't be wearing the goggles. :\
I'm sure he assumed the elections were fair. ;)
In any case, regimes with leaders like that don't need to get reelected. They just declare themselves dictator-for-life.
I use AVG's free edition for on-access scanning, just for a little extra protection, because I am generally able to avoid getting infected with anything. (Even if something does slip by me, I can often track it down through a service it installs, entry in startup lists, or running processes.)
If I'm downloading something that has a big potential for being a virus (e.g. a no-CD crack), I'll scan it manually with AVG, and also upload it to a scanning service like virusscan.jotti.org or virustotal.com, which take a file and put it through a number of anti-virus products.
Natually, AVG has also been making it harder to find the free edition. They, of course, want you to buy the full AVG Internet Security package. (To find AVG Free, you have to go to free.avg.com, and look for the less-flashy, more hidden buttons.)
Um... There will always be information that will have to be withheld due to (valid) concerns about National Security.
For example, take a unit in Afghanistan. What do you think would happen if details of that unit were disclosed, e.g. how big it is, where it is moving to, and what the soldiers are armed with? It would be attacked, and the enemy would know exactly what to expect.
Or, take an example closer to home. What if the President's jogging route for an arbitrary date in the future was disclosed, including precise times? You really can't say that no information is detrimental to stability...
Sooo... Basically, you value your personal property over the environment of the entire planet? How unselfish of you.
I've always been confused as to why this is considered cheating. If you and another student cooperate to attack a problem together, why is that a bad thing? You both (supposedly) learn whatever was being taught... It's not plagiarism, either.
I'm very glad they finally made this change. Working with three separate windows was hell. I'm no professional, but I'm usually working from a reference image. With one monitor on 1280x1024, I like to have the toolbox and layers/undo/brushes windows narrow, on either side, leaving the image window in the center, maximized, zoomed in as necessary. Because of this, I'm always alt-tabbing back and forth between the reference and the editor. Eventually, I'll open another window or something, and the window order will get all messed up, or the image window will come forward without the toolbox, or the toolbox will just disappear from the KDE panel and I'll have to minimize all my windows to find it again.
You seem to be misinformed. These days, government is run by corporations and special interests. (And don't even get me started on that recent Supreme Court decision.)
People such as this girl would have to disagree... Except she can't, she's dead.
That said, communication in a reasonable manner should not be regulated, no.
Only problem with that approach is that while you're not innovating, your competitors probably are, which usually makes them better than you again, leaving you to to play eternal catch-up-and-do-marginally-better.
That might be all you want, but I'm wouldn't give them shit if they didn't have a warrant.
Assuming you're referring to Windows, I can tell you that 64-bit Windows XP, which was derived from Server 2003, I believe, has no 16-bit subsystem.
As for major 16-bit software programs, yes, there are still some in use, probably mostly old combinations of hardware and software in specialized fields, especially old control systems. There was one comment on a story a few days back describing such installations, which are still around either because of specialized hardware interfaces or an excessive upgrade cost.
For YouTube embedded players, clicking on the video will open the YouTube page in a new window/tab. Which, incidentally, I find annoying, as I expect it to pause, as it would on YouTube.